Norwegian police said Monday that the five victims of last week's attack were killed by a "sharp object" used by the suspect, not a bow and arrows.

"At some point he discarded or lost his bow and arrows," police inspector Per Thomas Omholt told reporters.

He said that during the attack on Wednesday the suspect killed "five people with a sharp object both in private addresses and in public spaces".

Police, who had previously said that the suspect Espen Andersen Brathen was armed with a bow and arrows and two other weapons, did not specify the nature of the sharp weapons, adding that they were still interviewing witnesses.

"Everything points to the victims being selected at random," Omholt said.

According to the police, more than 10 people were also shot with arrows at the start of the attack, but none were killed with this weapon.

During police questioning, Brathen confessed to the killings and to wounding three others.